Presqu'ile Shorebirds 2 - Buff-breasted Sandpiper and More

Juvenile Buff-breasted Sandpiper is always a big attraction.

 

BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER VIDEO: Watch as it dashes about picking off insects. Gull Island in Presqu'ile Provincial Park on 16 September 2017.

 

Juvenile Buff-breasted Sandpiper - hatched in the High Arctic this summer, it's migrating to southern South America.

 

VIDEO: Juvenile Marbled Godwit in small pond on Gull Island. This large spectacular godwit is one of my favourite shorebirds. It breeds on the James Bay coast and on Akimiski Island.

 

Juvenile Ruddy Turnstone on Gull Island on 16 September 2017

 

VIDEO: Juvenile Baird's Sandpipers bathing and preening on Gull Island at Presqu'ile Provincial Park on 16 September 2017.

 

Two juvenile Pectoral Sandpipers with juvenile Semipalmated Sandpiper (centre) on Gull Island on 16 September 2017

 

Juvenile Least Sandpiper on Gull Island at Presqu'ile Provincial Park on 16 September 2017.

 

Links

Presqu'ile Shorebirds 1 on 7 September 2017

Presqu'ile Shorebirds 3 on 16 September 2017

Presqu'ile Shorebirds 4 on 19 September 2017